We're Mad As Hell

Even Andrew Sullivan is saying he's out for blood now.

McCain needs to be more than defeated. He needs to be exposed as the dishonest, despicable, desperate and dishonorable cynic he has become.

I'm trying to do my part. I sent this letter to the editor on Saturday. You should do something similar, with the main message being that McCain's choice of Palin shows his abysmal judgment and disqualifies him for the presidency. It's very easy to send letters to the editor now, just go to the newspapaper site and submit via email.

Last week Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told ABC interviewer Charlie Gibson that Americans don't want "somebody's big fat resume maybe that shows decades and decades in that Washington establishment where, yes, they've had opportunities to meet heads of state."
Huh. Instead of a longtime domestic and foreign policy hand — like maybe her opponent Joe Biden or her running mate John McCain — we also were told that we should accept her readiness to take over as Commander in Chief if needed because from some part of her state she can see Russia.
John McCain must think we are too stupid to notice that he has made the most blatantly cynical decision of his career by choosing a completely unprepared running mate who is totally out of her depth merely because she's an attractive mother of five who can cement his party's evangelical base.
His choice of Palin tells us all we need to know about how he would govern if elected.
He would show the same irresponsible, immoral and dangerous tendencies he showed with this first presidential decision.
"Country last, McCain first."

Or as a great commenter over at TPM put it:
The only issue that matters now is the nihilistic monstrosity that is McCain's campaign. If it wins, this election is all too likely to be the place where future historians draw the line and say "this is where the American experiment in democracy ended."

We simply don't have the luxury anymore of ironic detachment, or arguing about the past or about tactics, or even about whether the MSM will wake up in time to the fact that if the McCain campaign wins, it means the end of journalism. The reason we no longer have that luxary is not because we're a little behind in the polls, but because gambling addict John McCain just went all in--his soul plus everything we hold dear, and he put it all on black.